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TIL Before fat losers, Abercrombie & Fitch didn’t want minorities representing them either

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nLoW TIL 6,500 former military personnel committed suicide in 2012 alone
epywb TIL about the British Pet Massacre in which over 750,000 pets in Britain were euthanised by their owners during the early stages of WW2 to save food supplies.
mxGLp TIL that the Snowbirds less than 6ft apart from each other during formation. That’s closer than we are currently allowed with physical distancing guidelines.
l70EN TIL during WW2 the US and Canada invaded a Japanese-held Alaskan island with more than 35,000 men. After more than 300 casualties and the near sinking of the destroyer USS Abner Read from traps, mines, and friendly fire; they realised there were no Japanese on the island.
PYB6n TIL, in 1973 a drunk driver hit and killed a tree that had been used for a landmark in the Sahara Desert for nearly 300 years... And it was the only tree within 250 miles.